{"id":164,"date":"2009-08-03T12:11:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T16:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2021-03-07T23:54:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T04:54:35","slug":"photographing-nightlife-tip-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Nightlife Tip #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bright lights against a dark background often create attractive and exciting scenes. Here&#8217;s a simple tip for making your nightlife photos appear tack sharp.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>Bright Lights of Broadway (or elsewhere)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td width=\"50%\"><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arnielee.com\/sfp\/images\/nightlife\/Dsc_7387.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[164]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arnielee.com\/sfp\/images\/nightlife\/Dsc_7387s.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nYou may be surprised to know that many night scenes have an abundance of light. A dark background can often fool us and the camera&#8217;s exposure metering too. In this photo, the haze surrounding the marquee is caused by overexposure.<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\"><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arnielee.com\/sfp\/images\/nightlife\/Dsc_7385.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[164]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arnielee.com\/sfp\/images\/nightlife\/Dsc_7385s.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nTo make the scene and theater marquee appear without the haze, I&#8217;ve used the camera adjustments to provide less exposure. For this shot, I&#8217;ve dialed back the exposure by -2 stops, making the lettering appear sharp.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bright lights against a dark background often create attractive and exciting scenes. Here&#8217;s a simple tip for making your nightlife photos appear tack sharp. Bright Lights of Broadway (or elsewhere) You may be surprised to know that many night scenes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/?p=164\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[602,597],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nightlife","category-stills","tag-nightlife","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11029,"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/11029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}